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Evolution and adaptation (1903)

Author: Morgan, Thomas Hunt, 1866-1945
Subject: Evolution; Adaptation (Biology); Evolution; Adaptation, Biological
Publisher: New York, The Macmillan company; London, Macmillan & co., ltd.
Year: 1903
Possible copyright status: NOT_IN_COPYRIGHT
Language: English
Call number: 01157191
Digitizing sponsor: MBLWHOI Library
Book contributor: MBLWHOI Library
Collection: biodiversity; MBLWHOI; blc; americana

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The problem of adaptation.--The theory of evolution.--Darwin's theories of artificial and of natural selection.--Darwin's theory of sexual selection.--The inheritance of acquired characters.--Continuous and discontinuous variation and heredity.--Evolution as the result of external and internal factors.--The origin of the different kinds of adaptations.--Tropisms and instincts as adaptations.--Sex as an adaptation.--Summary and general conclusions

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